Track is my field: Mark Cullen's international track and field blog featuring storytelling, commentary, and predictions and event analyses for the Olympics and World Championships. I'm writing from the 2017 World Championships in London. I'm active on twitter: @trackerati

Sunday, November 9, 2014

I was
an official at the Washington State Cross Country Meet in Pasco yesterday. (To
be clear, I am speaking for myself and not for meet management.) I was posted
on the course about 40 meters from the finish line, and what I learned about
the timing issues I learned after all the races were over.

We have 11 races: the wheelchair race followed by the 10 girls and boys running
races by classification.

A problem with the finish system developed later in the day. Over the last
several races, the times were off, and by an increasing increment as the races
went on. For example, the first was off by, say, 3 seconds, the next by 5, and
so on. The biggest margin was close to 11 seconds, as the corrected Boys 4A
results show.

The good news is that the problem was recognized, the race results systems
people were able to determine by how much in each race, and to the best of my
knowledge, all results have now been re-posted with the corrected times.

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